Back in the day WIndows didn’t even have the capability to deal with ZIPs natively. Even if its time was brief (which I honestly don’t remember, I think that it was useful for years, almost up to Vista’s time) it was useful.
And I do think it generous that this paid software just let you use it after clicking a button with no time limit. Time gave us better options, but I think a lot of people look at WinRAR harsher than it deserves.
FUCK WINRAR!
it’s so stupid and amazing this recent celebration of people that are proud to have paid for it.
It was never a good solution really…
It just worked for what it was for a time… Because it was better than WinZip or pkzip.
7-zip has been amazing for years…
Better OS support would be cool too but it’s so unnecessary thanks to 7zip.
People on Lemmy sometimes get really angry at the dumbest things.
You don’t like Winrar, that’s your right, chill dude.
WinRAR is shit and I have no need to chill.
But guess what, thinking and expressing that you think my opinion is dumb is your right so carry on otherwise.
WinRAR was great for the time and their policies on paying for the program were extremely generous. Time just overtook it.
It was never great.
Their “generous” pay if you want to remove this obnoxious message prompt aside…
It was temporarily useful until better alternatives arose… Which took virtually no time.
Back in the day WIndows didn’t even have the capability to deal with ZIPs natively. Even if its time was brief (which I honestly don’t remember, I think that it was useful for years, almost up to Vista’s time) it was useful.
And I do think it generous that this paid software just let you use it after clicking a button with no time limit. Time gave us better options, but I think a lot of people look at WinRAR harsher than it deserves.
This revisionist history is so wild I can only assume you are 16 years old and freshly playing on your first computer that you dont need to share
7z recently also had an exploit. It’s not magically safer.
RAR compresses significantly faster than 7z (in relation to the compression ratio of course).
RAR has recovery records, 7z doesn’t. RAR4 even had cryptographic signatures included. But RAR5 dropped that.
7z is nice, but it’s not objectively better than RAR on every account.
Your can create recovery records, par2, for zip archives
Yes this is why it is loved as a piece of software history.
I get you probably were a twinkle in your dad’s eye in those days, but that doesn’t mean people who were alive then should care less.